1899
Born, Canig, Germany
1919/21
Studied architecture in Berlin and Stuttgart
1921/22
Studied with Johannes Itten and Paul Kleeat the Bauhaus, Weimar
1923/27
Travelled in Italy and Spain, stuying Old Masters. Continued around the world as portrait painter and printmaker.
1927/28
Returned to the Bauhaus under Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger
1930
Emigrated to the United States
1937
Was founding member of American Abstract Artists in New York
1937/40
Instructor at Columbia University, New York
1941/42
Technical Supervisor, Graphics Division, Federal Arts Project, New York
1946/65
Professor of Design and Director of First Year Program, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis
1961
One man show, Cleveland Museum of Art
1962
One man show, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Museum of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1966
One man show, Everhart Museum, Scrantonn
1968
One man show, Trenton State College
1969
One man show, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1974/75
One man travelling State Department show to Turkey and Latin America
1978
One man travelling show to nine cities in West Germany
1979
One man show, Washington University, St. Louis
1982
One man shows in Bonn, West Germany and Washington, DC
1983
One man show, Associated American Artists, New York
1984
Retrospective, National Museum of American Arts, Washington, DC
1985
Died, Reston, Virginia
1986, '90, '92, '94, '97, 2000, 2003
One man shows at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
Bibliography
Martina R. Norelli, WERNER DREWES, Sixty Five Years of Printmaking, National Museum of American Art, 1984
Franz Geierhaas & Brigitte Hellgoth, The Creative Act, International Print Society 1984
Ingrid Rose, WERNER DREWES, A Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints, Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, Munich-New York, 1984
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